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The Nobel Peace Prize is a prize giving to people that do things to keep the peace in their country. It was created on 27 November 1895.Committee solicits nominations from thousands. The individuals must submit their nominations and then they vote for the winner or winners of that year(Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes).

I chosen Laymah Gbowee. She was born in 1972. She was given the award when she was a resident in Liberia. She got the award in the year 2011.Laymah is still alive today(Leymah Gbowee - Biographical).

She shared the award with to other people Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Kerman. Laymah was given the award “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work." She really shows that we can do many things without hurting one another(LeymahGbowee - Biographical,Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Biographical and,Tawakkol Karman - Biographical).

Leymah Roberta Gbowee was born in February 1, 1972. She is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s peace movement that had brought an end to Second Liberian civil war in 2003. From falling asleep in the WIPNET office where she works. One night she woke up from a dream where God had said to her “Gather the women and pray for peace!” Leymah and two other Lutheran women workers, including a respected evangelist named Sister Esther, of her dream(Leymah Gbowee." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia).

They helped her to understand that the dream was not meant for others, as Gbowee thought; it was a necessary for Gbowee herself to act upon it. They put up flyers saying:”We are tired! We are tired of our children being killed! Women, wake up – you have a voice in the peace process!" They also handed out simple drawings explaining their purpose to the many women who couldn't read. By the summer of 2002, Gbowee was recognized as the spokeswoman and inspirational leader of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, described as a peace movementthat started with local women praying and singing in a fish market(Leymah Gbowee" Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia).

She is in the Associate of Arts degree in social work (2001) from Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia, Liberia.

As well in the Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation (2007) from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg,Virginia.

Certifications: Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Training at the United Nations Institute for Training, the Healing Victims of War Trauma Center in Cameroon, and Non-Violent Peace Education in Liberia. Leymah Gbowee is the executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa, based in Accra, Ghana, which builds relationships across the West African sub-region in support of women’s capacity to prevent, avert, and end conflicts. She is a founding member and former coordinator of the Women in Peacebuilding Program/West African Network for Peacebuilding (WIPNET/WANEP). She also served as the commissioner-designate for the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission(Leymah Gbowee." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia).

In a documentary, Gbowee emerges as someone able to laugh and enjoy life, despite what she has lived through: "Gbowee comes across as a sharply strategic, scrappy, political maestro interfaith mobilizer of merriment. Not the balloons-confetti-cupcakes-clown-type fun, but rather solidarity-inspiring conviviality. You see women dancing, singing, smiling, wearing beautiful, white-as-doves clothing, and you even see laughter during sit-ins and protests"(Leymah Gbowee." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia).